Pruning Roses (in Summer) - These Mistakes Will Cost You the Second Bloom

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Eight summer pruning mistakes are quietly costing you a second flush of roses — and the one at the very top can erase an entire year of blooms on certain roses before you even notice.
Most of the fixes cost nothing but a little attention. Here's what the garden center never explains.

In summer, you're not shaping a rose — you're having a quiet conversation with its hormones. Make the right cut and you wake a whole second flush; make the wrong one and you can lose the bloom for good. We count all eight mistakes down, from the one that costs you the least to the one that can cost you a whole year — with the real science behind each, drawn from university Extension horticulturists, not garden folklore.